[GRLUG] Choice of MB - Trouble Installing

[rh90p at comcast.net]

What Motherboards do you run Linux on?  I have 3 ASUS machines that I have been unable to install any flavor of Linux on since SuSE 9.3.  People I know from work are saying that they have been unable to install on their machines also.  

I have an ASUS A8V Deluxe 64bit dual core 3800+AMD w/ 3GB ram.  On that one Fedora 9 installer goes black screen just after I pick the keyboard type (in graphic mode).  In ran the installer in text mode and got a kernel panic in about the same place.

I also have an ASUS CUV4X-DLS 32bit dual processor 1000 Intel w750MB and an ASUS P3V4X 32bit 600 Intel w/ 512MB ram.  The behavior varies but the result is that I can't install on anything I have using openSuSE 10.1 to 10.3, Fedora 8 to 9, Ubunto, etc.

I am no newbie.  I've been running Linux at home since Redhat 6.2 (the first version that looed serious) and I was the Linux guru for an entire division of a large company.